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Run
Patchett, Ann
"Run" has the incantatory style of Ann Patchett's "Bel Canto." It is a novel about mothers, their children, and the fathers that love them set during a Boston blizzard. It begins with an accident and encompasses all that Boston is famous for -- Harvard, the Irish, racism, Roman Catholicism, politics, education in forty-eight hours in a family's life.
[Adult Fiction Book PATCHET PATCHETT]
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Timothy or Notes of an Abject Reptile
Klinkenborg, Verlyn
Timothy, a tortoise whose carapace is preserved at the British Museum of Natural History, narrates this historical novel with the delicate, yet ironic touch of one who is confined to Curate Gilbert White's garden in eighteenth century rural England. Klinkenborg takes the historical novel into realm of natural history in a language, but poetic and tortoise-like. A reading pleasure.
[Adult Fiction Book KLINKENBORG]
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Nobody's Fool
Russo, Richard
The story of Donald Sullivan, "Sully," and his world in a small, upstate New York village in the mid-1980s. Russo fully realizes Sully's world, from his landlord to his son to his grandson to the false promises of love and commercial development and the pain of aging after having made every wrong decision a man could make in America. The reader worries and cares about Sully and his comrades. A work of brilliance that will appeal to readers of Jon Hassler and Ivan Doig.
[Adult Fiction Book RUSSO RUSSO]
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Old School
Wolff, Tobias
Set in 1961, the novel is narrated by a young man in a New England preparatory school. This academy has a history of producing fine writers and students who love literature and who fiercely compete for publication in their literary magazine and the chance to meet visiting lecturers - Robert Frost, Ayn Rand, and Ernest Hemingway- who play themselves in this novel. This is a fine and moving novel of boys and the men who were their teachers. Wolff also wrote the award-winning memoir, "This Boy's Life."
[Adult Fiction Book WOLFF]
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Elegance
Tessaro, Kathleen
American Louise Canova, in her mid-thirties and living in London, finds herself in a marriage that has grown tepid and a career that has stalled. In a used book store, Louise finds a book entitled Elegance that helps her to look into the mirror of her life. This "chick lit" book has an admirable depth that resonates long after the reader has finished the story.
[Adult Fiction Book TESSARO]
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The Namesake
Lahiri, Jhumpa
Seeing America through Gogol Ganguli's eyes and his mother Ashima's heart, is like having a window opened onto the contemporary emigrant's experience. Their beautifully told story unfolds between Boston and India. Jhumpa Lahiri won the Pulitzer Prize for her collection of short stories, Interpreter of Maladies.
[Adult Fiction Book LAHIRI]
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